The Awareness Principle

A revolutionary 'Theory of Everything' based on a Unified Field Theory of Consciousness, The Awareness Principle offers a radically new philosophy of life, science and religion.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Nowhere except in The Awareness Principle will one find an absolutely consistent 'mind only' or 'consciousness only' philosophy of the sort first put forward by Bishop George Berkeley - a philosophy that recognises the wholly subjective nature of all dimensions of reality, that has no need of conventional concepts of 'matter' or 'energy' - and that replaces the abstract notion of energetic 'quanta' and 'quantum fields' with that of fields and field qualities of awareness: 'qualia'. See also The New Yoga of Awareness

If this is so, how can that
AWARENESS be regarded as ‘yours’ or 'mine' - or as the property or
product of any self, body or
brain, thing or beingthat we only know of through that very
AWARENESS?

Answer:It cannot. For the AWARENESS of any self, body or being is - in PRINCIPLE - more primary than any self, body or being - and therefore cannot be a property of it. Question: What is 'matter'?

Answer: Not an objective 'substance' of any sort but an AWARENESS of subjectively experiencing tactile qualities such as hardness and softness, weight and density etc. These are not qualities 'of' any material substance but rather potential qualities of awareness or subjectivity itself.

Question: What is 'energy'?

Not some fundamental aspect of any 'objective' or 'physical' universe but rather, the actualisation - within AWARENESS - of felt potentials of subjective experiencing.

Question: What is 'God'?

Answer: not some sort of supreme being that merely 'has' or 'possesses' consciousness, nor even 'Being' as such, but rather consciousness as such - AWARENESS. That is because no self and no beings - not even a 'God' - can 'be' without a primordial AWARENESS of Being.

Question: What is 'a self', 'a body' or 'a being'?

Answer: All selves, bodies and beings are but individual portions, expressions and embodiments of that universal field of AWARENESS which IS 'God'.

WHAT IS 'THE AWARENESS PRINCIPLE'?The Awareness Principle is the
principle that AWARENESS cannot - IN PRINCIPLE- be
explained by or reduced to the property or product of anything of which IT
is aware - any self or world, body or brain, thing or being, even a Supreme
Being or 'Being' as such.

On the contrary, every thing, body,
self or 'being' - everything that 'is' - is an individualised portion, expression
and embodiment of a universal, beginningless and boundless AWARENESS that is beyond explanation.

Since it is not 'matter' or 'energy' but AWARENESS that is the
sole possible reality underlying and constituting all things, all beings and
all worlds, The Awareness Principle is the sole possible
Theory of Everything - being a Unified
Field Theory of reality which recognises all things as the expression of a Universal Awareness Field.

MORE ON THE AWARENESS PRINCIPLE:

All phenomena are perceived within fields of awareness. Just as dreaming (the field of our dreaming awareness) cannot be said to be ‘caused’ or explained by something we dream of,
nor is the field of our waking awareness caused by or reducible to
any phenomena perceived within it – including the human brain or sense
organs.

No
phenomenon present or perceived within a dream can be said to be
‘caused’ or by other phenomena present or emergent within the same
dream. Similarly no phenomenon perceived within the field of our waking
awareness can be said to be caused by other phenomena present or
perceived in the same field.

There
is no need whatsoever to posit any reality – whether in the form of
invisible particles of ‘matter’ or quanta of ‘energy’ - lying behind
what we subjectively perceive and experience in awareness as phenomena.
On the contrary, all phenomena are themselves manifestations of
awareness as such - emerging from and perceived within fields of awareness.

· The
Awareness Principle transcends
‘science’ as we know it today, because it recognises that the most basic
scientific ‘fact’ or ‘reality’ of all is not the 'objective' existence of a
universe of matter and energy but a subjective awareness of such a
universe, as shaped by different organising field-patterns or species of awareness.

· The Awareness Principle transcends
‘psychology’ as we know it today, because it recognises that awareness is
universal and all-pervasive in character– neither bounded by our bodies nor a mere
product of our brains or the property of any soul or psyche, ego or self.

· The Awareness Principle transcends
‘religion’ as we know it today, because it recognises that 'God' is not a
'supreme being' that simply happens to have or ‘possess’ awareness but rather
that God is awareness - a Universal Awareness Field of which
all individual beings or ‘souls’ are a unique portion and personification, a
unique expression and embodiment - a unique 'species of awareness'.

AWARENESS, ADVAITA AND SPACE

Just as empty space is both absolutely inseparable from everything
it surrounds and pervades - and at the same time absolutely distinct from it
- so is awareness as such ('pure awareness') both absolutely inseparable
and absolutely distinct from all there is to be aware of.

The Awareness
Principle is therefore also a radical new conceptualisation of the Eastern
principle of 'non-duality' or Advaita, one which recognises it as a state of
'inseparable distinction' - like space and its contents or two sides of
the same one coin - which being both distinct and inseparable
constitute 'the non-duality of duality and non-duality'.

THE FREEDOM MANTRA

Whatever your mood or state of being - and particularly if you
feel yourself in any state of emotional or bodily dis-ease, distress,
discomfort or even despair - do not say
to yourself:

“I feel X, Y or Z” or “I am X, Y or Z”

(Example “I feel…” or
“I am… depressed/anxious, angry/agitated” etc.)

For in reality you are
not what you are experiencing, you are
not your thoughts or feelings about yourself or other people, or your
reality.

So eliminate the mental word “I” from your experience by using what I call the ‘Freedom Mantra’:

“There is an awareness
of ...X, Y or Z”

In other words say to yourself - or simple
wordlessly remind yourself and understand that it is not ‘you’ thinking, feeling or sensing anything – call
it ‘X’ – but instead that:

“There is an
awareness of currently experiencing, thinking/feeling/sensing X.”

At the same time feel that very awareness – which is not ‘you’ or anything you are experiencing – as
a free spacesurrounding your experienced thoughts, feelings or sensations –
wherever you sense them within your head or body - and surrounding your body as a whole.

Removing the mental word ‘I’ and replacing it with the understanding that there is simply an awareness of experiencing something
is central to the Practice of Awareness. It is what allows any experienced
thoughts, feelings, sensations to just be there without identifying (‘I-dentifying’) with them.

This is not the
same as ‘disssociating’ or ‘detaching’ from your thoughts,
feeling or sensations. On the contrary, it is what allows you to freely let them be thereor let them go.

Instead the Freedom Mantra even allows you to freely take time to experience particular thoughts, feelings,
sensations or moods more intensely and
to explore them more deeply and for a longer time - but again, without ‘I-dentifying’ with them and therefore
feeling un-freely trapped by them.

BEYOND ANTHROPOCENTRISM AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM

Whatever we human beings perceive as the world around us is not 'THE world'. Instead it is an organised perceptual field of awareness shaped by the organising field patterns of perceptual awareness
that constitute the essence of the human organism and the
human species. Such organising field patterns of awareness are also what
and make every species, including our own, a unique species of awareness.

Thus the
organising field patterns of awareness that shape our own human world
and awareness however, are nothing like those of a spider, tick, toad,
bat, shark, whale or jellyfish - which perceive neither each other nor any other organism - any other species of awareness
- in anything like the same way that we human beings do. Thus what we
perceive as the defining shape and form 'a dog' is nothing but our own
uniquely human and highly species-specific way of perceiving
another, very different species of awareness. Another dog, a spider - or
a rock or tree - would experience what we perceive as a 'dog' quite
differently. The greater world of awareness consists of countless
worlds, each constituted and inhabitied by particular species
of awareness - whether those of a specific atom or molecule, cell or
organism, plant or tree, animal or human being, or those of a planet or
sun, star or galaxy. Just as the Church used to regard the earth as the
centre of the cosmos and saw 'God' in an anthropomorphic way - so
today's new religion of 'science' remains stubbornly anthropomorphic
and anthropocentric in its view of the universe - taking as it
does our uniquely species-specific human awareness and the
perceptual world it shapes as the very touchstone of reality - as 'the'
world. In doing so it ignores the worlds of countless other species of
consciousness - most of which we are intensient to and which
are invisible to us. The very distinction that human
science make between so-called 'insentient' matter, organic life and
conscious or 'intelligent' species of 'organic' life is a failure to
recognise that all that is or can be perceived is but the perceived form
taken by other species of awareness within the respective worlds they
shape and inhabit.